The Indonesian Pop Star, the King Cobra and the Emperor Mongs Advice.

LE

At 29 years of age and not a typical Darwin pupil by the look of her, you would think she would know better but this Indonesian pop star liked to sing on stage accompanied by a King Cobra snake. What could possibly go wrong said the emperor mong. You know you really want to!

Sooner her than me both in terms of singing ability and sharing the limelight with a King Cobra but I suppose you would think, well, with the appropriate safeguards, it will be ok!

One big no no would be to avoid stepping on the snakes tail. Who thought it would be a good idea to have the snake in close enough proximity that you could step on it's tail is something I'd like to know if it was me but she can't ask because having stepped on the tail of the huge King Cobra and the snake getting the arrse about it, maybe a little understandably, it bit her and now she's dead!

Not that it bit her and she just died. It bit her and she carried on singing for another 45 minutes until she died! Imagine the questions that would come up at the inquest if they do those things in Indonesia.

Who suggested having the snake in the act? who let the snake move freely around the stage? Where were the ambulance crew? Where was the antidote? Why didn't the singer look where she was putting her feet???

ADC

The snake was supposed to have been drained of it's venom by it's handler but obviously missed this one!

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'" -Unknown
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf - George Orwell
Si vis pacem, para bellum

LE

Witnesses at the gig in Karawang, West Java, said Bule did not initially seem too affected by the bite, and she apparently "refused an antidote from the snake handler," said one local reporter.... It's thought that Bule believed the cobra had been defanged.